Participant Media has come aboard Davis Guggenheim's documentary on Pakistani student activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived a brutal assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012. Participant will co-finance the film with Abu Dhabi's Image Nation.

Yousafzai, only 14 at the time of the attack, was boarding her school bus when she was shot in the head and neck. She made a miraculous recovery in Birmingham, England, and has since continued speaking out internationally for girls' education rights in her home country. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.

Guggenheim ("Waiting for Superman") began filming back in July, and covered -- among many things -- her speech to the UN General Assembly last summer, her first public speech since the assassination attempt.